Introduce yourself to Diving Board readers!
Because this community communicates
This newsletter isn’t meant to be a one-way conversation. I have plenty of those with my goldendoodle Webster.
I’d love to know who you are and help you connect to other people who are curious about similar things: meaningful work, personal growth, and how the hell to survive the 21st century.
Post in the chat thread here and tell us:
Something you’re currently digging (anything! can be a book, a food, a practice or habit, a show, a product, a hole - get it?)
What sort of work you do
What topic(s) you’re interested in exploring at The Diving Board
Thanks for chiming in! I can’t wait to get to know you better.
I'll go first to break the ice, like a good host. :)
1. I am currently digging the book "The Highly Sensitive Parent", which is helping me understand why I can be both a wonderful mom (I'm very attuned and empathetic) and a terrible one (I'm overstimulated! I'm overwhelmed! Everyone just shhhhhh!)
2. Work I do - coaching, team development, leadership development...and increasingly, writing and speaking, if all goes well.
3. I'm interested in shaping The Diving Board around what interests you - truly - but I know for sure that I want to explore with you the following: work-life integration, Vertical Development (it's ok if you don't know what that means yet), Enneagram, spirituality and work, plus whatever random stuff is making me go, "Oooooh, I wanna share that with someone! Is anyone listening?".
1. I'm currently digging my church and learning healthy spiritual practices! Finding the community at Mill City Church has been giving my a weekly vulnerability hangover and I'm loving it. Also spending time digging into all of the books I've had on the shelf for years: The Artist Way, The Body Keeps the Score, Boundaries, the list goes on. Is it smart to be 50 pages into 5 different books? Who's to say...
2. I'm starting a organization (someday a nonprofit) that brings after school performing arts education into schools (I'm lucky to live in Minnesota that has a beautifully developed Community Education system that's able to provide the structure to do what I do) and teaches young educators *how* to teach the arts. So far so good, but I'm still in the beginning stages. Always looking for people willing to share their expertise!
3. Oh goodness... kinda everything? I'm a sponge right now and will take all the advice I can get. I'm super interested in the logistics of gaining public speaking/coaching clientele as you dive into that! And how to structure life when you don't work a typical 9-5 schedule.